Safety and Risk Engineering Group

Dr. Ming Yang, SREG Leader

Dr. Yang’s research involves using modeling methods to create innovative and effective solutions to engineering environmental and safety problems. Much of his work focuses on development of quantitative and qualitative approaches for environmental, risk, and safety management for oil and gas operations.

Dr. Yang aims to establish a collaborative research program in process environmental and safety engineering for oil and gas operations. The challenges of environmental, safety and integrity management of oil and gas operations arise from technological, economic, and environmental constraints. It requires a focused multidisciplinary approach to identify, understand, assess and evaluate challenges, and to develop appropriate safe and economical solutions. The proposed research program will contribute towards the advancements of knowledge, technology, and training in multidisciplinary areas such as process safety, occupational safety and environmental management of operations in any subsections of oil and gas or other energy industries.

Dr. Yang joined the School of Engineering at Nazarbayev University in March 2017. After graduation from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Dr. Yang worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Centre for Risk, Integrity, and Safety Engineering led by Prof. Faisal Khan (Canada Research Chair, Tier 1 in Process Safety Engineering). Since 2012, Dr. Yang has been course instructors of varieties of undergraduate and graduate courses related to safety and risk engineering and environmental management, which includes Safety and Risk Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Probabilistic Methods in Engineering, Sustainable Engineering in Process Industries, Pollution Prevention, Industrial Pollution Control, etc. As a subject team leader, Dr. Yang has been participated in the projects, which include:

Environmental management for offshore oil and gas (OOG) operations (Project title: Development of A Novel Integrated Safety and Environmental Management System for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations, funded by NSERC through STPGP program 2006-2008);